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The transition from working in the business to working on the business happens over time – slowly, deliberately, one small step followed by another small step.
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084 |
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…we all need to fight departmentalized, batch thinking because tasks can almost always be accomplished much more efficiently and accurately when the product is worked on continuously from raw material to finished good.
|
022 |
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By design, flow systems have an everything-works-or-nothing-works quality which must be respected and anticipated.
|
060 |
 |
…work in an organization where value is made to flow continuously also creates the conditions for psychological flow.
|
065 |
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…the primary incentive for working in a lean system is that the work itself provides positive feedback and a psychological sense of flow.
|
263 |
 |
Being forced to pretend to work just for the sake of working is an indignity…
|
085 |
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Time is not a grid against which work can be measured, because the work is the measure itself.
|
090 |
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…the psychological and emotional labor required to balance meaningful interests and bullshit work is often daunting.
|
141 |
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…a mass reduction of working hours is probably the quickest and easiest thing that could be done to save the planet.
|
194 |
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Some originally theological notions about work are so universally accepted that they simply can’t be questioned.
|
195 |
